Arizona Attractions — Ranked and Sourced

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727 attractions

1Score 97.6 out of 100
National Park
Grand Canyon National Park
A mile-deep gorge cut by the Colorado River through two billion years of rock, and the fifteenth US national park.
4,919,163 recreation visits in 2024.
2Score 79.2 out of 100
National Recreation Area
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
A National Park Service unit around Lake Powell, covering 1.25 million acres of high desert in Arizona and Utah.
4,725,610 recreation visits in 2024 across the wider recreation area.
3Score 78.2 out of 100
Landmark
Hoover Dam
A concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, built between 1931 and 1936.
4Score 76.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Meteor Crater
An impact crater 3,900 feet across in northern Arizona, and the first on Earth confirmed to have been formed by a meteorite.
5Score 75.8 out of 100
National Park
Petrified Forest National Park
A national park of petrified wood and eroded badlands in north-eastern Arizona, crossed by historic Route 66.
559,254 recreation visits in 2024.
6Score 75.5 out of 100
National Park
Saguaro National Park
Two districts of Sonoran Desert either side of Tucson, preserving the giant saguaro cactus the park is named for.
946,369 recreation visits in 2024.
7Score 73.3 out of 100
Historic Site
London Bridge
The 1830s Thames bridge bought from the City of London in 1968 and rebuilt at Lake Havasu City in 1971.
8Score 72.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Monument Valley
A cluster of sandstone buttes on the Navajo Nation, the largest rising 1,000 feet above the valley floor.
9Score 72.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Sonoran Desert
A subtropical hot desert of 260,000 square kilometres, home to the saguaro and the organ pipe cactus.
10Score 70.7 out of 100
Canyon
Antelope Canyon
A system of six slot canyons on Navajo Nation land near Page, entered only with an authorised Navajo guide.
11Score 69.7 out of 100
Historic Site
Taliesin West
Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and studio in Scottsdale, built from 1938 and now a National Historic Landmark and World Heritage Site.
12Score 68.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Lake Powell
A Colorado River reservoir on the Utah–Arizona line, created by Glen Canyon Dam and visited by about two million people a year.
13Score 67.5 out of 100
Historic Site
Mission San Xavier del Bac
A Spanish Catholic mission south of Tucson, founded in 1692 and rebuilt by 1797, making it the oldest European structure in Arizona.
14Score 66.6 out of 100
National Monument
Montezuma Castle National Monument
A five-storey Sinagua cliff dwelling at Camp Verde, built by 1125 AD and viewed from the trail below.
379,967 recreation visits in 2024.
15Score 66.2 out of 100
National Monument
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Three canyons on Navajo Nation land, continuously inhabited for nearly 5,000 years and still farmed today.
387,433 recreation visits in 2024.
16Score 65.0 out of 100
Landmark
State Farm Stadium
The retractable-roof home of the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale, host of three Super Bowls and the Fiesta Bowl.
17Score 64.9 out of 100
Natural Landmark
The Wave
A banded sandstone formation in the Coyote Buttes, reached only by permit lottery and a difficult hike.
18Score 64.9 out of 100
National Monument
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
A 293,689-acre monument south of the Utah line protecting the Paria Plateau, Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon and the Wave.
19Score 64.8 out of 100
Waterfall
Havasu Falls
A waterfall on Havasu Creek in the Grand Canyon, lying within the tribal lands of the Havasupai people.
20Score 64.2 out of 100
Natural Landmark
San Pedro Valley
A valley running 140 miles north from Sonora into Arizona, carrying the San Pedro River to Winkelman.
21Score 64.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Horseshoe Bend
An incised meander of the Colorado River near Page, viewed from a clifftop overlook 1,000 feet above the water.
22Score 63.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Superstition Mountains
A range east of the Phoenix metropolitan area anchored by Superstition Mountain, and a well-used recreation area.
23Score 63.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Chapel of the Holy Cross
A Roman Catholic chapel built into the red rock buttes of Sedona between 1954 and 1956, listed on the National Register in 2011.
24Score 63.2 out of 100
Landmark
Biosphere 2
The largest closed ecological system ever created, built by 1991 and now a University of Arizona research facility.
25Score 61.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Painted Desert
A badlands region running from the Grand Canyon to Petrified Forest, known for the colour of its rock.
26Score 61.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Oatman
A former gold-mining camp in the Black Mountains that grew past 3,500 people in a year and now numbers 102.
27Score 61.3 out of 100
Museum
Titan Missile Museum
A deactivated Titan II missile silo south of Tucson, and the only place in the country where a complete ICBM can be seen in place.
28Score 61.0 out of 100
Observatory
Lowell Observatory
The Flagstaff observatory where Pluto was discovered in 1930, founded in 1894 and still open for public observing.
29Score 60.4 out of 100
Landmark
Mullett Arena
A 5,000-seat arena at Arizona State University, temporary home of the NHL's Arizona Coyotes from 2022 to 2024.
30Score 60.3 out of 100
Landmark
Desert Diamond Arena
A Glendale entertainment arena at the Westgate district, home of the Arizona Coyotes from 2003 to 2022.
31Score 60.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Mogollon Rim
A topographical feature running some 200 miles across northern Arizona, forming the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau.
32Score 59.8 out of 100
National Monument
Agua Fria National Monument
A 72,344-acre national monument north of Phoenix, holding over 450 recorded Native American structures on Bureau of Land Management land.
33Score 59.5 out of 100
National Monument
Hohokam Pima National Monument
A Hohokam village site near Sacaton, protected since 1972 and kept closed to the public by the Gila River Indian Community.
34Score 59.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
San Francisco Peaks
A volcanic range north of Flagstaff, crowned by Humphreys Peak at 12,633 feet, the highest point in Arizona.
35Score 59.0 out of 100
Landmark
Chase Field
The downtown Phoenix ballpark of the Arizona Diamondbacks, opened in 1998 under a retractable roof over grass.
36Score 58.9 out of 100
National Monument
Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument
A national monument of more than 900,000 acres around the Grand Canyon, designated in 2023 and closed permanently to new uranium mining.
37Score 58.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Camelback Mountain
The highest peak in the Phoenix metropolitan area, named for its resemblance to the hump and head of a kneeling camel.
38Score 58.7 out of 100
Museum
The Thing?
A roadside attraction on Interstate 10 displaying a supposed mummified mother and child, advertised for miles by billboards.
39Score 58.6 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Kaibab National Forest
A 1.6-million-acre national forest bordering both rims of the Grand Canyon, divided into three ranger districts.
40Score 58.6 out of 100
Historic Site
Old Tucson Studios
A film studio and theme park west of Tucson, built in 1939 for the film Arizona and used for Westerns ever since.
41Score 58.1 out of 100
Landmark
Four Corners Monument
The only point in the United States shared by four states, maintained by the Navajo Nation as a visitor site.
42Score 57.2 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Lake Pleasant Regional Park
A large recreation area on the Maricopa–Yavapai county line north-west of Phoenix, operated by Maricopa County Parks and Recreation.
43Score 57.2 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Roden Crater
An extinct volcanic cinder cone with an interior crater, standing about 50 miles north-east of Flagstaff in northern Arizona.
44Score 56.9 out of 100
National Monument
Wupatki National Monument
Red sandstone pueblos built by ancestral Puebloan farmers near Flagstaff, including a hundred-room great house.
220,205 recreation visits in 2024.
45Score 56.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Mount Graham
A 10,720-foot peak north-east of Tucson, the highest in the Pinaleño Mountains and the southernmost land above 10,000 feet in the country.
46Score 56.4 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Piestewa Peak
A 2,610-foot summit in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, named for Army Specialist Lori Ann Piestewa and climbed by a strenuous trail.
47Score 56.3 out of 100
Canyon
Glen Canyon
A canyon cut by 169.6 miles of the Colorado River, most of it submerged by Lake Powell after Glen Canyon Dam was built in 1963.
48Score 56.2 out of 100
Historic Site
Mystery Castle
A house in the South Mountain foothills built in the 1930s from found materials, and open for tours since 1948.
49Score 56.0 out of 100
Museum
Pima Air & Space Museum
An aerospace museum in Tucson displaying nearly 400 aircraft, and home to the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame since 1991.
50Score 55.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Sierra Bonita Ranch
A Sulphur Springs Valley cattle ranch founded by Henry C. Hooker in 1872, the first permanent American cattle ranch in Arizona.
51Score 55.4 out of 100
Historic Site
Tovrea Castle
An Italianate landmark built in Phoenix between 1929 and 1931 as the centrepiece of a resort, set in grounds holding over 5,000 cacti.
52Score 55.3 out of 100
Observatory
Large Binocular Telescope
An optical telescope on Mount Graham whose paired 8.4-metre mirrors give it the light-gathering power of an 11.8-metre instrument.
53Score 55.3 out of 100
State Park
Slide Rock State Park
A natural water slide formed by the bed of Oak Creek north of Sedona, set on a 43-acre working apple farm.
467,016 visits in 2024.
54Score 55.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Tonto National Forest
At 2,873,200 acres the largest national forest in Arizona, running from Sonoran Desert up to the pine forests of the Mogollon Rim.
55Score 55.3 out of 100
Natural Landmark
White Mountains
A mountainous region of eastern Arizona rising to Mount Baldy at 11,400 feet, much of it within the Fort Apache Indian Reservation.
56Score 55.3 out of 100
Historic Site
Wrigley Mansion
A house built in Phoenix between 1929 and 1931 by the chewing gum manufacturer William Wrigley Jr, on a knoll near the Arizona Biltmore.
57Score 55.1 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Coconino National Forest
A 1.856-million-acre national forest around Flagstaff and Sedona, rising from desert to Humphreys Peak at 12,633 feet.
58Score 55.0 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Cheops Pyramid
Cheops Pyramid is a summit of 5,401 feet elevation standing within the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona.
59Score 55.0 out of 100
Historic Site
Contention City
A ghost mining town in Cochise County, settled and abandoned in the 1880s with the rise and fall of silver mining near Tombstone.
60Score 54.7 out of 100
Natural Landmark
Cathedral Rock
A sandstone butte near Sedona rising to 4,967 feet, reached by a short, steep trail from the Back O' Beyond trailhead.